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It's the moment you've all been waiting for (I know I have). Version 8 of WebSphere MQ has been announced and will soon officially become available for the z/OS platform (General Availability date 13 June for z/OS, eGA of 23 May for multiplatforms). When I was reviewing early release materials for documentation on the product I was happy about many of the changes that had been implemented by Development. We had seen, at the Support Center, that many of these changes were the result of problems that had come into us at the... [More]

Hello MQ Fans! MQ 7.1 introduces a very transcendental feature which has many implications for installation, administration and runtime: it is possible to have multiple versions of MQ installed in the same machine. This was not possible with MQ 7.0 and previous versions. Even though you may want to have only one version of MQ in the machine, such as 7.1, the MQ developers wanted to ensure that you could have the freedom and flexibility to install another version to coexist in the same machine, such as 7.5. I wrote 3 techdocs that provide very... [More]

Most migrations (upgrades) of WebSphere MQ go swimmingly, don't they? This is a good thing. But we'd like to see every single one of them fall into that bucket. To that end, it's crucial that you include the following information into your migration plans. This is because migration isn't just about moving forward, but it's also about allowing queue managers to co-exist in configurations where queue-sharing groups commingle data; where different levels of the base code may have been installed; and how to create a migration plan where you can... [More]